Cloud-side Execution of Database Queries for Mobile Applications

Robert Pettersen, Steffen Viken Valvåg, Åge Kvalnes, Dag Johansen

2015

Abstract

We demonstrate a practical way to reduce latency for mobile .NET applications that interact with cloud database services. We provide a programming abstraction for location-independent code, which has the potential to execute either locally or at a satellite execution environment in the cloud, in close proximity to the database service. This preserves a programmatic style of database access, and maintains a simple deployment model, but allows applications to offload latency-sensitive code to the cloud. Our evaluation shows that this approach can significantly improve the response time for applications that execute dependent queries, and that the required cloud-side resources are modest.

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Pettersen R., Viken Valvåg S., Kvalnes Å. and Johansen D. (2015). Cloud-side Execution of Database Queries for Mobile Applications . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-104-5, pages 586-594. DOI: 10.5220/0005451605860594


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@conference{closer15,
author={Robert Pettersen and Steffen Viken Valvåg and Åge Kvalnes and Dag Johansen},
title={Cloud-side Execution of Database Queries for Mobile Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2015},
pages={586-594},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005451605860594},
isbn={978-989-758-104-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Cloud-side Execution of Database Queries for Mobile Applications
SN - 978-989-758-104-5
AU - Pettersen R.
AU - Viken Valvåg S.
AU - Kvalnes Å.
AU - Johansen D.
PY - 2015
SP - 586
EP - 594
DO - 10.5220/0005451605860594